January 10, 2022 The Honorable Jose Medina Chair of the Higher Education Committee 1020 N Street, Room 173 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: AB-295 – Support Dear Assemblymember Medina, Our coalition was very happy to see that you have proposed legislation, AB-295, which would create a working group and pilot program for tuition and fee-free higher…
This SF Chronicle opinion piece puts it sharply and succinctly: “Ronald Reagan’s ghost runs the UC system. Expect strikes until that changes.” It places the recent UC-AFT campaign in the history of declining state support for UC, beginning with Ronald Reagan’s imposition of an “educational fee.”: “The result is a long-term decline in per-student funding…
Our coalition has proposed some updates to the Post-Secondary Education section of the California Democratic Party Platform. The current platform language is online. Our suggested edits included putting tuition- and debt-free higher ed at the top, foregrounding labor rights for all, and advocating state funding for housing. Here is how that section of the platform…
Good morning! As you probably have heard, the lecturers and UC management have reached a tentative agreement and as a result UC-AFT has called off the strike. The union members have yet to ratify the contract, but it looks like this agreement is a huge victory for our lecturer colleagues, improving their job security, compensation,…
November 14, 2021 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, We are again writing to you as the leadership of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, CUCFA, the systemwide organization of Senate faculty that created…
October 21, 2021 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, We write to you as the leadership of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, CUCFA, the systemwide organization of Senate faculty that created the Pledge…
CUCFA Expresses Solidarity with UC-AFT’s Fight for a Fair Contract SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 –– Hundreds of UC Senate Faculty stand in solidarity with our lecturer colleagues, represented by their union, UC-AFT, in their fight for better working conditions, including recognition as professionals with the right to be rehired. We owe it to them, to ourselves,…
The Faculty Associations across UC, who together make up the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), stand in solidarity with our lecturer colleagues who currently are in negotiations with UCOP for a new contract. For the first time in over 20 years, and after 2 years of negotiations, lecturers have voted with an overwhelming majority…
Earlier this month, representatives from the UC Faculty Associations and over 75 other unions and organizations, representing over 300,000 academic workers, met in a higher education summit that developed a vision platform for a new national higher education campaign. The organizers of the event asked higher education organizations to sign on to the vision platform….
Our letter to Assembly Speaker Rendon and Assembly Member Rivas in support of AB-1550. May 28, 2021 Speaker Anthony Rendon California State Assembly State Capitol, Room 219 Sacramento, CA 95814 Fax: (916) 319-2163 RE: Assembly Bill 1550 (Rivas); Position: Support Dear Speaker Rendon: We are the Council of UC Faculty Associations, the collective bargaining representative…